pelt

Meanings

Verb

• To bombard, as with missiles.
• To throw; to use as a missile.
• To rain or hail heavily.
• To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
• To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
• To throw out words.

Noun

• A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Origin

• From Middle English pelt, from Old French pelette, diminutive of pel, from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry from the same Old French and Latin roots.
• Norwegian pels, Norwegian belte
• From Middle English pelten, pilten, pulten, perhaps from Old English *pyltan.